Kenneth Oksanen [Thursday 5 September 2002] :
> The extra whitespaces in the string constants are crucial. The intent
> of the output of ocamllex was that they would *not* be included in the
> strings, but cpp mangles those strings so that they are included in
> the strings, thereby producing a broken lexer.
In fact there are other pitfalls : cpp only accept lexically correct C
input but ocaml lexical conventions are different. For instance 'a
(type variables) are rejected by cpp if there are an odd number of
them on a line ("missing terminating ' character").
--
Olivier
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